Mar 27, 2019
Micah Bartlett’s views on “relationship banking” are formed by a fundamental insight: most people have a fraught emotional relationship with money. For most customers, he says in the latest ABA Banking Journal Podcast, finances cause anxiety, not empowerment. “There’s a big emotional component to money...
Mar 20, 2019
Meet a third-generation family-owned community bank that has brought young, ethnic minority bankers onto its executive team. “Of our executive committee of five, three are Hispanic females. . . . Two of those under the age of 40,” says Lonnie Talbert, COO of $385 million Southwest Capital Bank in Albuquerque, N.M.,...
Mar 13, 2019
With the Current Expected Credit Loss standard for loan loss accounting coming into effect for many banks — and the vast majority of bank assets — on Jan. 1, 2020, where are bank CFOs and managers in the process of implementing CECL, and what challenges are they seeing? ABA accounting experts Michael Gullette and...
Mar 7, 2019
With consumer losses from phishing scams in 2017 up 375 percent from two years prior, according to FBI data, the ABA Banking Journal Podcast marks National Consumer Protection Week with a bonus episode on phishing. Not only does phishing directly harm consumers, it can often be a vector for costlier frauds like
Mar 6, 2019
Last week on the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — in part one of a two-part series — co-host Evan Sparks took listeners on a trip to Tupelo, Miss., the smallest city in the country to have two banks with more than $10 billion in assets headquartered locally. The Tupelo economy is thriving today, with strong...